Name on a Knife Blade: Sharpening Links between Cutlery & Communities

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A Sheffield directory (1856) carried an advertisement for Robert Bateman as a manufacturer in Smithfield of ‘Genuine Fish Hook Knives and of All Kinds of Spring Knives. A Supply of Spanish and Portuguese Cutlery made of Best Materials Always on Hand’. An unconfirmed report has a foundation date of 1739. Possibly the originator of the enterprise was Ralph Bateman (trade mark ‘ROD’), who was listed as a pen knife manufacturer in Wadsley in 1787. Robert Bateman was bap....

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